[jdom-interest] JAXP performance problems

[Michael Kay]

> (b) Using the actual implementation factory directly, using a 
> app-specific property: while this removes the complete 
> implementation independency, it should be easy to wire things 
> using Springs or such.


It's surprising how many people go through the generic

TransformerFactory.newInstance()

and then immediately cast the result to something like
net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl(), which they could have instantiated
directly in the first place.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/